Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
BOETHIUSAs far as possible, join faith to reason.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
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Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!
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Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it – even if we so desired.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
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The good is the end toward which all things tend.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
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Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
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He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
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Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
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One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.
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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
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As far as possible, join faith to reason.
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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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